Corrections officer fatally shot at banquet hall

An off-duty New Jersey corrections officer was shot and killed while attending an event at a Trenton banquet hall. Carl Batie, a 26-year-old Willingboro resident who served in Mercer County, was one of several people standing on a second-story rear deck when shots rang out around 1:15 a.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead a short time later.